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‘Practice Changing’ Trial for Inoperable Locally Advanced NSCLC

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CHICAGO — Patients without disease progression following chemoradiotherapy for unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) should receive osimertinib (Tagrisso) if they harbor EGFR mutations, experts said here. In the randomized LAURA trial, median progression-free survival (PFS) increased seven-fold when patients received the EGFR inhibitor after definitive chemoradiation, improving from 5.6 months with placebo […]

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Publish date : 2024-06-02 18:00:00

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